Curiosity driven life
(Gunawardana Research Lab)
It’s a number in a scale A quotient without units or dimensions A reward for answering a few questions On a piece of paper A venerated test that few people take After all if your number is on the lower half You feel like a bottom-dweller A scavenger fish, a debris feeder Still people queue up Especially the mathematicians And […]
It’s a number in a scale
A quotient without units or dimensions
A reward for answering a few questions
On a piece of paper
A venerated test that few people take
After all if your number is on the lower half
You feel like a bottom-dweller
A scavenger fish, a debris feeder
Still people queue up
Especially the mathematicians
And the physicists – some are pure geniuses
And some merely mad men –
Some can untie knots of algebra
On the black board and some
Hide beneath stellar theories
But in this day and age – unlike in Syracuse
Naked men don’t run amok
After jumping on to a bath tub
To show the size of their brain
Only geniuses with knotty grey and white matter
Fall head over heels, saturated in one feeling
After all, no numerical label of your brain
Can ever stop a foolish heart
From a dizzy arrhythmia, even shattering to pieces
After all even Einstein the egg-head
Was merely Humpty-Dumpty
Falling in love.
Dilantha Gunawardana, a molecular biologist/biochemist trained at the University of Melbourne, lives in a chimerical universe of science and poems. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in The Writing Disorder, Heart Wood Literary Magazine, Quadrant Online, Poets for Science, Canary Literary Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Forage, Kitaab, Creatrix, Eastlit, Cephalo Press and Zingara Poetry Review among others, while also contributing to three poetry anthologies, including his latest collection of Cancer themed poems which he penned while battling cancer. Dilantha made into the final three in the award for the best original poetry for the year 2024 in Sri Lanka’s State Literary Awards Ceremony and was also awarded the prize for “The emerging writer of the year – 2016” in the Godage National Literary Awards, Sri Lanka, while being shortlisted for the poetry prize, in the same awards ceremony. Dilantha lives in a beautiful island country shaped like a teardrop, Sri Lanka, known for its black tea, true cinnamon, the love of a colonial game called cricket, passion for spicy curries and was formed as recently as ~23 to ~5 million years ago, breaking away from the Indian landmass. Dilantha in his free time takes part in pub quizzes, maintains a photography blog dedicated to birds, forays into prose writing, and plays basketball, soccer and cricket. Dilantha’s poems can be found at: https://poemsfromceylon.com/
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